Cybernetic Marxism Time? Cybernetic Marxism Time.
The Cybernetic Brain - Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering goes into early cybernetic developments, Beer's Cybersyn and the early ontological shift within Cybernetics. (US/USSR control systems vs. Beer's controlled systems, essentially)
The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski is about how the most efficient economies today are largely planned by AI and about liberating 'The Algorithm'. Pretty accessible read.
Digital Socialism by Evgeny Morozov; goes quite a bit into economics and the calculation debate itself, pretty in-depth; dunks on Hayek occasionally.
Edit: Also, of course, Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer himself - great intro to Beer's work and his flavour of system philosophy in particular.
If you like this type of thing, you should read "toward a new socialism" by Paul Cockshott. The absolute madman explains how to plan the british economy with technology from the nineties
If you like this kinda stuff you should check out General Intellect Unit Podcast.
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